Episode Description
Steve Giordano from Interstitial and Ethan Winn from Obran join us to talk about one of our favorite topics: worker co-ops! What they are and, more importantly, why we think they are a great corporate structure for tech startups.
Also...Henhouse is in Beta!
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Show Notes and LinksGuests
Podcasts and Media
- Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
- Stuff You Should Know, "How Worker Co-Ops Work"
- The Laura Flanders Show
- Upstream Podcast
Cool Co-ops To Check Out
- Colab
- Colorado Drivers Cooperative
- Comp.coop
- CoTech (UK tech co-op network)
- Hypha Worker Co-operative
- Igalia
- IOCoop
- Platform Cooperativism Consortium
Organizations and Networks
- Cotech
- Cooperation Works!
- Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City
- Democracy at Work Institute
- ICA Group
- Launch.coop
- National Cooperative Business Association
- New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives
- Patio, Patio chat
- Project Equity
- Start.coop
- US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, USFWC Slack channel
- Worker's Co-Op
Legal
- CoopLaw.org
- Edward P. Swyer Justice Center at Albany Law School
- DRGA (Argentine cooperative law firm)
- Jason Wiener, PC (cooperative attorney)
- Sustainable Economies Law Center
Financial
Events
- 2026 Worker Co-op Conference (September 26-27, Boston)
- Co-Op Events Calendar
- Platform Cooperativism Conference
- USFWC Upcoming Events
Books
- Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice by Jessica Gordon Nembhard
- Humanizing the Economy by John Restakis
- Humanocracy by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini
- Ours to Hack and to Own edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider
- Owning Our Future by Marjorie Kelly
- The Making of a Democratic Economy by Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard
- We Should Own The Economy by Elle Griffin